Mental Health Recovery Programme

Free 2-week introductory courses

Courses take place in a virtual classroom or in centre with group teaching facilitated by two qualified tutors. Our tutors have professional and lived experience, and knowledge of mental health. The courses are fully funded with no fee payment required by learners. Each session lasts 2.5 hours and courses are offered at different days and times.

Introduction to Mental Health

An introduction to the concept of mental wellbeing and the value of keeping well, looking at what it means to have a recovery from mental illhealth and how that journey can be started and achieved.

Introduction To Building Resilience

An introduction to strategies and tools to help you develop your self-resilience, identifying what is resilience and the benefits of practicing resilience in our day to day interactions.

Goal Setting For Wellbeing

Helps you clarify your goals in any aspect of life, helping you focus and get motivated towards working on a long- or short-term goal of your choice, to enhance your quality of life and gain a sense of achievement.

Positive Habits for Wellbeing

Develop an effective approach to building and maintaining positive habits to support and improve your wellbeing. Explore strategies to understand the mind and body relationship of stress whilst developing and maintaining healthy routines.

Stress Awareness

An introduction to awareness of stress, looking at the signs of stress, and sharing some practical approaches to managing them.

Step Towards Self Confidence

An introduction to strategies towards helping you improve your selfconfidence. You will explore strategies and techniques to improve your selfconfidence whilst developing your selfawareness, assertiveness, negotiation and personal skills.

Managing Anxiety

An introduction to self-help strategies to help you manage anxiety with practical tools and tips to apply in everyday life. Helpful for anyone who wishes to manage their anxiety and take back control over their mental wellbeing.

Managing Change in Life and Work

An understanding of how to maintain emotional wellbeing when the world around us is changing and unpredictable. Learn how to observe and identify your own fears and triggers and ways of managing them for greater levels of emotional wellbeing to help get you through.

Mental Health in a Man’s World

Explore the stigma often suffered by men in relation to mental health, defining common disorders such as anxiety and depression and how this relates to the mind/body relationship. The course will enable you to identify and put into practice a Wellbeing Toolkit, as you discover the five ways to wellbeing and many other strategies to help cope with mental health conditions.

Managing Sleep For Wellbeing

An introduction to self-help strategies to improve sleep. Sleeping well is important for our mental and physical health and many factors affect quality of sleep. On this course you will find out how to recognise sleep cycles, routines and environmental factors affecting sleep and what you can do to achieve better sleep quality.